Are you a PhD student thinking about life outside of academia? Do you want to explore alternative career ideas?
On Saturday, May 7th, The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Religious Studies presents, "Alternative Careers for PhDs in the Humanities & Social Sciences" from 3:00-5:30PM in the Cohen Hall Terrace room.
This 3 paneled presentation will include two PhDs who have chosen a non-teaching career path in areas of curatorship, foundations, and consulting & writing:
Curatorship: Dr. Catharine Allgor (The Huntington) & Dr. Beth Citron (The Rubin Museum)
Foundations: Dr. Nadina Gardner (The National Endowment for the Humanities) & Dr. John Paul Christy (The American Council of Learned Societies)
Consulting & Writing: Dr. Jason Wilson (The Guardian) & Dr. David Engel (Wells Fargo Advisors)
RSVP: kastoler@upenn.edu Questions: 215-898-7453

RELS155 - INTRO TO INDIAN PHILOS

This course is an introduction to philosophy written in the Islamic world. Our primary focus is the classical period of Islamic thought, spanning roughly 800 to 1200 C.E. We begin with the religious and political context of the early Islamic world out of which emerged some of the lasting intellectual concerns and questions of the Islamic tradition. We then study the works of some of the most important thinkers of the classical period, including al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd, and Ibn-Tufayl. The readings are (for the most part) in chronological order, but each of the authors is treated thematically. Representative topics include: whether the world is eternal; theories of causation; what it is to know something; the distinction between essence and existence; whether philosophy (or science) and religion are in harmony or conflict; animal ethics.